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Apr 8, 2010 This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words desideratum limen obdurate quiescence chicanery Read it today Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg quiescence PRONUNCIATION: (kwee-ES-uhns, kwi-) MEANING: noun: A state of rest, inactivity, or quietness. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quiescere (to become quiet), from quies (quiet). USAGE: "The Copenhagen debacle could lead to a period of quiescence in which not much is done to pursue climate-change policy." Anthony Giddens; Start the World, We Want to Get On; NewStatesman (London, UK); Feb 8, 2010. Explore "quiescence" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. -Gilda Radner -actress and comedian (1946-1989)

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